This month Donna Foerster has challenged us to think about how we give back to our communities via her contest, "What Have You Done to Make a Difference in Your Community." In addition to staying informed about what is going on my community/city and voting, I regularly engage in various volunte...

Repayment of the First-Time Home Buyer Credit Many of us have heard about the “low inventory” problem. This problem is not in the high end/luxury market. My theory is that the low inventory problem may be related, in part, to concerns related to the repayment of the First Time Home Buyer ...

What make a blog or newsletter a MUST read? Earlier this week, I noticed that I haven’t seen any updates in my email box from my favorite blog – Photography for Real Estate. I went to the website and saw that I missed several posts. It turns out that somehow, my spam filter decided that they...

This morning Larry Lohrman's Photography for Real Estate blog post was, "How Far Woud You Go To Clean Up for A Real Estate Photoshoot?" A picture from a video clip is shown. Someone, I don't know if it was the photographer or the real estate agent, was cleaning up a huge pile of dog poop that ...

As a real estate broker, photographer and lover of flowers and gardens, I have always admired Roy Kelley. On his blog, Roy consistently shares information about his area and/or real estate. He almost always includes one or more gorgeous flower photographs. I origionally tried calling Roy as ...

Do you have any large sick trees in your yard? If so, you need to have them removed as possible if they can't be "fixed." This has been a hard blog to post because of the guilt that I felt. Someone could have been killed because I didn't want to cut down a large tree in my backyard that was...

I'm on an ongoing mission to provide horse 101 lessons to nonhorse people - in the event they end up listing a horse property. Horse owners are not all the same. Brigita's post did an amazing job of capturing the reality about different views of horse owners. Sondra p.s. If you are an not a...

A walk down memory lane - The first buyer prospect that I had was someone that I worked with as a CPA. He was qualified and he had a vision of what his dream house was going to look like. It felt GREAT to have someone to show homes to in my first week of real estate. Little did I know...

Well, it may not be the greatest gift but it would very, very appreciated. If done properly, it is would likely help keep peace in the family. Do you have a will? Does it need updating? Most of us don’t look forward to dying so we really don’t want to think about a will. However, sooner o...

The Black Forest is located on the northern end of El Paso County. This area boasts some of the best views of Pikes Peak and gorgeous Ponderersa Pine trees. Some parts of the Black Forest consists of open pasture land. The area covers over 100 square miles. So far this year, 30 homes have ...

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